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There have been tremendous recent developments in drone (unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs) technology [3] in terms of control and automatic flight of drones, so that while regulations and drone protection measures (protecting drones and protecting people from drones) are being investigated, practical applications are being developed, from product delivery, disaster assessment and recovery, art and exergaming [7] to self-driving cars guided by drones.
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See for example, the work at http://www.kumarrobotics.org and at http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/research-dandrea.html.
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At http://www.livescience.com/56792-drone-fireworks-show-world-record.html is mentioned a 500 drone fleet light display.
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See BitDrones at http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2016/bitdrones.
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This is a funded project at the University of Leeds: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a18051/leeds-is-trying-to-use-drones-to-become-the-first-self-repairing-city/, though not without its critics: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/you-probably-shouldnt-expect-city-repairing-drones-any-time-soon; it is also reported that Amazon has been granted a US patent to allow drones to dock at street lights—perhaps an ingenious way to combine drone stations and widely available infrastructure, at http://luxreview.com/article/2016/07/amazon-drones-to-dock-on-streetlights.
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Loke, S.W. (2017). Drone Services for Mobile Crowds. In: Crowd-Powered Mobile Computing and Smart Things. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54436-6_5
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